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Motivated by an open problem and a conjecture, this work studies the problem of single server private information retrieval with private coded side information (PIR-PCSI) that was recently introduced by Heidarzadeh et al. The goal of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuxiang Lu , Syed Ali Jafar

Secret-key agreement protocols over wiretap channels controlled by a state parameter are studied. The entire state sequence is known (non-causally) to the sender but not to the receiver and the eavesdropper. Upper and lower bounds on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Ashish Khisti

In this paper, we study the problem of secret communication over a Compound Multiple Access Channel (MAC). In this channel, we assume that one of the transmitted messages is confidential that is only decoded by its corresponding receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hassan Zivari-Fard , Bahareh Akhbari , Mahmoud Ahmadian-Attari , Mohammad Reza Aref

We consider the problem of controlling an unstable scalar linear plant over a power-constrained additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, where the controller/receiver has access to an additional noisy measurement of the state of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Omri Lev , Anatoly Khina

We propose the notion of secrecy gain as a code design criterion for wiretap lattice codes to be used over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. Our analysis relies on the error probabilites of both the legitimate user and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Jean-Claude Belfiore , Frédérique Oggier

Transparency and explainability are two extremely important aspects to be considered when employing black-box machine learning models in high-stake applications. Providing counterfactual explanations is one way of fulfilling this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Mohamed Nomeir , Pasan Dissanayake , Shreya Meel , Sanghamitra Dutta , Sennur Ulukus

We focus our attention on the most common scenario in networked control systems where the measured output from the observer is transmitted via a communication channel to the controller. Using information theoretic results, we studied the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Ayush Pandey

Quantum Private Comparison (QPC) allows us to protect private information during its comparison. In the past various three-party quantum protocols have been proposed that claim to work well under noisy conditions. Here we tackle the problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-12 Vikesh Siddhu , Arvind

This paper studies the achievable rates of Gaussian interference channels with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), when improper or circularly asymmetric complex Gaussian signaling is applied. For the Gaussian multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yong Zeng , Cenk M. Yetis , Erry Gunawan , Yong Liang Guan , Rui Zhang

Privacy of the outsourced data is one of the major challenge.Insecurity of the network environment and untrustworthiness of the service providers are obstacles of making the database as a service.Collection and storage of personally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Divya G. Nair , V. P. Binu , G. Santhosh Kumar

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows a user to download one of $K$ messages from $N$ databases without revealing to any database which of the $K$ messages is being downloaded. In general, the databases can be storage constrained where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Nicholas Woolsey , Rong-Rong Chen , Mingyue Ji

We introduce the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) on replicated databases modeled by a simple graph. In this model, each vertex corresponds to a server, and a message is replicated on two servers if and only if…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

This paper considers the problem of secret communication over a two-receiver multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian broadcast channel. The transmitter has two independent, confidential messages and a common message. Each of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ruoheng Liu , Tie Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai

We consider the problem of covert communication over continuous-time additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels under spectral mask constraints, wherein two legitimate parties attempt to communicate reliably in the presence of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Qiaosheng , Zhang , Matthieu R. Bloch , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) allows a client to privately access a database without revealing which element is accessed. Initial PIR protocols based on Ring Learning with Errors (RLWE) demonstrated the practicality of PIR, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi , Abdulrahman Diaa , Florian Kerschbaum

Building a password cracking server that preserves the privacy of the queries made to the server is a problem that has not yet been solved. Such a server could acquire practical relevance in the future: for instance, the tables used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Aureliano Calvo , Ariel Futoransky , Carlos Sarraute

This paper considers the problem of secret communication over a two-receiver multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian broadcast channel. The transmitter has two independent messages, each of which is intended for one of the receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-24 Ruoheng Liu , Tie Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai

Information-theoretically secure communications are possible when channel noise is usable and when the channel has an intrinsic characteristic that a legitimate receiver (Bob) can use the noise more advantageously than an eavesdropper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Tatsuya Tomaru

Private information retrieval (PIR) allows private database queries; however, it is hindered by intense server-side computation and memory traffic. Numerous modern lattice-based PIR protocols consist of three phases: ExpandQuery (expanding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hyesung Ji , Hyunah Yu , Jongmin Kim , Wonseok Choi , G. Edward Suh , Jung Ho Ahn

In wireless data networks, communication is particularly susceptible to eavesdropping due to its broadcast nature. Security and privacy systems have become critical for wireless providers and enterprise networks. This paper considers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ruoheng Liu , H. Vincent Poor